Martinites bristle over coup, putsch accusations
MPs who support Paul Martin are bristling over accusations that they’re working behind the scenes to slow or kill Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s legislative legacy agenda last week. The accusations surfaced a day after more than 100 MPs and Senators who back Mr. Martin crowded into a local arena on the home turf of leadership […]
Time for Martin to answer questions
Paul Martin garners 124 to 127 MPs for support. These same elected Liberal MPs have either been brain washed, or promised greater things for this support. I cannot imagine anyone supporting the new “emperor,” when Martin has little or no opinion on any subject. He has not spoken out about his stance on gun control […]
Tories and elephants — neither forget…
New Brunswick Tory MP Elsie Wayne, who with Jean Charest kept her party alive in the Commons after the Great Conservative Wipeout of ’93, was quick to point out last week what many may not recall – or are too young to remember. Responding to the Canadian Alliance white paper on defence policy – and […]
House Foreign Affairs Committee split on NMD
At least half of the MPs on the prestigious Commons Foreign Affairs and International Trade Committee still publicly say that they don’t have enough or adequate information to support Canada’s potential role in U.S. National Missile Defence (NMD) program, according to a survey conducted by The Hill Times. The Hill Times contacted all 18 MPs […]
Missile defence: Copps and Axworthy get it wrong: Some Liberals want safety and sanctimony, snuggling under U.S. blanket
WASHINGTON, D.C.–In 1995, with the impending departure of foreign minister Andre Ouellette from DFAIT, thoughts at the U.S. Embassy turned to his replacement. It appeared as if Lloyd Axworthy, the Liberals’ foreign affairs critic during the Mulroney era, was to be anointed. Having served diligently, if unmemorably, in the purgatory of the Human Resources Development […]
NMD suddenly lands with a giant thud
OTTAWA–The National Missile Defence (NMD) system has suddenly descended on the Canadian political scene raising more questions and concerns than providing answers. Both the Cabinet and Liberal caucus have recently been seized with discussions on this U.S.-proposed military program. For months, Prime Minister Jean Chretien refused to respond to persistent questioning about Canada’s participation in […]
‘It just feeds my habit of political junkieness’: Bruce Hartley
Q&A With BRUCE HARTLEY, Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s EA/ by F. Abbas Rana How do you feel being No. 3 on the Terrific Twenty-Five Staffer List? It’s a privilege to be with all these great staffers. To be on the list with the likes of Eddie Goldenberg and Jim Munson, I can say I feel […]
Hey Paul, speak up
Paul Martin wants to have it both ways. He claims he cannot be held responsible for tax-evading tactics used by his company Canada Steamship Lines (CSL) when he was Finance Minister, but wishes to claim the of CSL’s success as an international company as an example of the kind of leadership he can provide if […]
Patrick Watson’s elitist idea
TORONTO–Globe and Mail columnist Roy MacGregor called it “an idea almost too easy to ridicule.” The National Post wrote, “nothing dies harder than a bad idea.” Whatever you call it, former CBC chairman Patrick Watson’s proposal for a “public” newspaper is both extraordinarily stupid, because it wouldn’t sell, and strikingly arrogant, because Watson assumes the […]
“Should changes be made to the eerie, high-school council format used for the Liberals’ leadership debates? And should the candidates be taking their cues from the livelier Tory TV debates?”
Warren Kinsella Liberal strategist “This one’s easy. Answer: yes, changes are needed, and pronto. “That ‘debate’ was as boring as a box of bran flakes. As boring as being an aircraft controller in Antarctica. As boring as your neighbour’s wedding pictures. As boring as non-alcoholic beer. As boring as [Enough already! – ed.] “Anyway, you […]
